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Mar. 5, 2015
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eyesome Audio Pronunciation
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\AHY-suhm\
adjective
1. Archaic. pleasant to look at.
Quotes
I thought not I should meet an eyesome maiden, / But found one there.
-- Thomas Hardy, "The Seven Times," Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922
Origin
Eyesome entered English in the late 1500s. The suffix –some is used in formation of adjectives and means “tending to; causing.”
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